Martin (John Amplas), a young man who looks around 20-years-old, boards a train in Indianapolis, Indiana for New York. At night, he breaks into a sleeping car and sedates a woman with a syringe full of narcotics. She struggles, but he tells her not to struggle or be upset because she wont feel pain. After a few minutes, the woman falls asleep, and Martin has sex with the unconscious woman. Afterwards, he slices her wrists with a razor blade so he can drink her blood. The woman bleeds to death in her sleep.
In the morning, the train stops in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania where Martin disembarks. He is met by Tata Cuda (Lincoln Maazel) an elderly and hostile old man who claims to be his cousin from the Old World. Together, they travel by another train to the town of Braddock, a dying industrial suburb. They walk to Cuda's large house where he shows Martin his living quarters. Cuda then accuses Martin of being an 84-year-old vampire from his old country. He has taken in Martin because he is family, but tells him, "First I will save your soul. Then I shall destroy you." Martin denies being a vampire and implies that Cuda is merely his uncle rather than his cousin. Cuda then puts up strings of garlic on the doors to his and his granddaughter's room, and then holds up a small cross when Martin approaches him. Martin takes away the cross, and even takes a bite of the garlic mocking these attempts by saying bitterly, "There's no real magic... ever". Cuda tells Martin that he can come and go as he pleases. But he also warns Martin that he will kill him if he kills anyone in Braddock. He also tells Martin to stay away from his granddaughter Christine (Christine Forrest), whom arrives home from her job that evening.
Cuda introduces Christine to Martin, but also warns her to stay away from him. But Christine instead strikes up a friendship with Martin who confides in her about his vampire heritage. When Cuda later confirms Martin's claims to be a vampire, Christine, not surprisingly, refuses to believe either one. She thinks that Cuda and the other members of her family have driven Martin to insanity by making him think that he is a vampire. It is never revealed if Martin really is a vampire, or just a shy and lonely youth with troubled issues. Christine is the only person that Martin gets the courage to talk to. When Christine's boyfriend Arthur (Tom Savini) arrives at the house for dinner, Martin stops talking and backs away despite Arthur's attempt at a conversation. Christine later confides in Martin that she hopes to leave Braddock someday with Arthur, even though Martin points out that Arthur treats her badly and is both verbally and physically abusive towards her.
When Christine sees that Martin won't talk to anyone else, she buys him a phone which he installs in his room. Martin begins to repeatingly call a radio talk show where he describes what it's like to be a vampire. He becomes known on the radio as "the Count" to all the listeners. But the patronizing host (Michael Gornick) thinks he's just crazy.
Martin gets a job at Cuda's grocery store of stocking shelves, hauling boxes around, and even gets to be a delivery boy for some of the customers. One of his customers is a certain Abby Santini (Elyane Nadeau), who becomes taken in with Martin. She is a very friendly young woman who is depressed when she tells Martin that her husband is unfaithful. But Martin still does not have the nerve to talk with her, so she is happy to have someone to confide in with her life problems. Martin phones the radio show host to describe his infatuation with the housewife and senses that she wants to have sex with him. When the radio show host asks Martin if it is a sexual problem that he has involving women criticizing him during sex, Martin replies that he has never had sex with a woman who was awake.
One day, Martin travels by train to outside Braddock to look for victims. At a supermarket, he follows a young woman (Sarah Venable) home to her posh suburban house. He sees the woman's husband (Richard Rubenstein) leave for a long business trip, and Martin decides this would be the right time for more feeding. Martin returns to the house after dark and breaks in through the garage door. But it is Martin who gets the surprise when he bursts into her bedroom to find her in bed with her adulterous lover Lewis (Al Levitsky). After a vicious struggle, Martin jabs both of them with hyprodermic needles with narcotics, and waits for the drugs to take affect. He drags the unconscious body of Lewis from the house to a clump of trees across the street where he kills him by shoving a broken tree branch into his neck and drinks his blood. Martin returns to the house where he has sex with the unconscious woman. But out of compassion and pity, he decides to let her live.
Martin begins to have romantic monochrome visions of his vampire past (real or imagined), where he drained blood from a young woman and was chased through the streets of a nameless European town by a torch-lit mob.
During one Sunday at church, Cuda brings home Father Howard (George A. Romero) who asks him about the possibility of exorcism and demon possession. Father Howard calls upon the elderly Father Zulemans (Clifford Forrest, Jr.) over at Cuda's request. Together, Cuda and Zulemans confront Martin his bedroom and attempt to perform an exorcism on him. At this point, Martin remembers (another real or imaginary flashback), in the Old Country of people trying to perform an exorcism on him, and he flees them. Martin then flees from Cuda and Zuelmas as well. A little later that night, Martin terrorizes Cuda in a children's playground when he puts on a Dracula cape and puts false fangs into his mouth to pretend that he really is a vampire.
One day, Martin finally musters the courage to talk with Mrs. Santini during a routine delivery to her house where he tells her that he's aware of her attempts to seduce him and wants now to have sex with her. After having sex for the first time, Mrs. Santini becomes more depressed for she tells Martin that her husband just left her because she discovered that she cannot bear children, and that her desires towards him are based on sex and nothing else. But Martin wants to stay with her and help her move on with her life. Martin tells the radio show host about his affair with the housewife and that he no longer has the urge to attack other women.
Meanwhile, Arthur meets with Cuda and tells him that he wants Christine to leave town with him so they can get married and start a family. But Christine becomes angry at Cuda when he tells Arthur that insanity runs in their family and he shouldn't consider having children with her. Shortly afterwards, Christine packs up and leaves Braddock for New York with Arthur despite Martin telling her that Arthur is abusive towards her. But her mind is made up. Before leaving, Christine tells Martin that she really has no ill feelings towards him and just wants to make a fresh start with her life. She says goodbye to him and promises to write. But Martin knows that with an abusive and possessive man in Christine's life, she probably won't.
Depressed over losing his one true friend, Martin phones the radio show host and tells him that he's getting "shaky" and wants to go out looking for more victims. That night, Martin travels to a rough crime-ridden area of Pittsburgh and attacks two derelicts in a alley, injecting them with narcotics. He kills one of them by silting the bum's wrist and drinking his blood. Martin is about to kill the second one when a police car shows up and gives chase. Martin narrowly escapes during a long chase on foot which leads from the garbage strew streets and through a local store. Martin runs into an old warehouse where a drug deal is going down. A shootout between the two cops and the three thugs begins where all of them are killed, leaving Martin as the sole survivor who casually walks away from the carnage.
One day, Martin finds Mrs. Santini dead in her bathtub, after she had slit her writs with a razor blade. Martin anonymously calls the police to report the body and leaves. He phones the radio show host one final time to say that he really doesn't need friends or people to talk to for he is his own person. But when Cuda learns about Mrs. Santini's suicide, is mistakenly thinks Martin killed her and made it look like a suicide as he's done before. Cuda walks into Martin's room while he is asleep and kills him by hammering a wooden stake through Martin's heart.
Cuda buries Martin's body in his back garden, while over the closing credits various voices from people are heard talking to the radio show host asking the whereabouts of "the Count".
还原得很不错，漫才也是选的老头的经典段子，不能接受当年的莉香变成如今的麻里的凄惨结局，后半部分赚足了眼泪
2.开始20分钟节奏比较慢，观众很难通过前面的情节与角色共鸣
喜剧演员时刻都不要忘了诙谐，任何一个时刻，任何地点，在自身的生活中。可以看出北野武有多重视那个时期周围的人对他造成的影响，很尊敬他的老师。给三星是因为这个剧本吧，这个导演是做不来的，才能这个东西，真难啊。
不够喜剧也不够温情，也不够限制级。人物刻画方面徒有其外形，不甚走心。
明明大泉洋也很是适合扮演北野武的，不知道他会不会羡慕是柳乐拿到了北野武的角色。不过师父的角色也有极富魅力的一面，如果我是演员的话，也会为出演了这样的角色而自豪吧。
后面我才发现，那个年老的北野武是假扮的。而娓娓道来的师父的关爱也是符合逻辑和人物的
有些生硬的部分，比如师傅对浅草剧场的执着，观众取向变化却不愿求变，比起自己被时代抛弃更像只是什么都不去做罢了。阿武从出道到走红的路径有点美式脱口秀的意思，冒犯观众，百无禁忌。电影的质感却是很好，浅尝辄止的感情描写，用情人旅馆转动的圆床和踢踏舞步串起的一段段故事。
特效化妆有点出戏，影帝还在成长，节奏蛮好的
唯一槽点：北野武年轻时候没有面瘫啊！这个不用刻意模仿啊！最后的老年北野武真的是惊了，居然不是本尊，依然是柳乐优弥的化妆，完全看不出来！是枝裕和到真是挖出了一个超棒的影帝啊。B站有这电影的混剪，比电影更好哭→【【北野武|浅草小子】“我的人生才刚刚开始!”-哔哩哔哩】 https://b23.tv/39hR8uU
围绕FRANCE座讲北野武和师父两个人的故事（师父人物的深度胜过北野武），两位女性角色形象也丰富（美女真的好美），也带上了一点娱乐（短剧、漫才）的发展。演员表演都非常到位，大泉就是角色本身，柳乐影帝长得有点太帅算唯一的问题。老年北野武的化妆有些僵硬，说像也像，说怪也怪，说吓人也吓人。整体复古滤镜挺常见的，表现手法不新鲜，结构有点乱“现在-回忆-回忆中的回忆-回忆-现在-回忆-现在-结尾长镜头”，长镜头挺好也挺套路。片尾动画可爱。3.5//有客串，能看到Creepy Nuts规规矩矩在厂子上班。
这种叙事节奏才是我的菜。北野武本身就是个充满魅力的人，柳乐优弥的表演虽然顶级，但一颦一笑略带一丢丢刻意。最后，有被师徒情感动到。一日为师终身为父一点都不假，当然得是有伯乐眼光的良师。
今年看的網飛原創日本電影，表現真的都很不錯，本片是北野武版火花+喜劇開場，師徒情動人，講北野武開始拍電影前，在漫才圈打滾的日子。對北野武的認識，就是從凶暴的男人開始，對在這之前的他一無所知，所以還滿訝異平常都面癱嚴肅到爆的他，竟然是喜劇出身，而且還是漫才舞台表演，果然影帝也要由影帝來詮釋，才有說服力。柳樂優彌的表演很棒，成功抓住北野武的神韻與講話方式，和大泉洋的師徒情意外地動人，本來以為是師徒鬧不合拆夥的電影，結果北野武其實比我想的還忠心耿耿，對師父的愛是每年都固定去上香，師徒情真的有感動到我，透過漫才演繹自身的悲哀，笑著笑著就想哭了，師父好落魄，但是看著徒弟成功好驕傲。結尾致敬鐵達尼號結尾，同樣的佈景用魔幻寫實的方式一鏡到底重現，北野武成名前待的法蘭西座，每個角落都充滿著他年輕時的回憶。
“你要告诉观众，什么是有趣的。”
门胁麦好抓眼！本以为是老头子致敬老师的作品，抬头一瞅，竟然是剧团一人😂 在遗照前像扯段子一样说已经烧了一半了火葬场说少收点钱的时候太让人难过了……这才刚刚开始报恩……
真正的浅草小子不是北野武，而是一直在浅草的北野武师父。柳乐弥优演北野武很使劲，斜着眼抽抽还是很像的。不管是相声还是漫才，有的人技术很好但没有创作的能力，有的人技术普通但创作灵感爆棚。北野武独树一帜的创作方向确实首开先河，但没有他师父教授的基础可能还需要折腾几年。况且，他师父对他真的很不错。可惜阿武有能力反哺的时候 师父却遭遇意外。有点侯耀文和郭德纲的感觉。铃木保奈美依然动人。
完全是笨拙模仿，没有得到一点北野武的神韵。
北野武的《芳华》，致敬师父，更多的是老男人对过去的回忆和留恋。kitch，煽情，所以平庸，感染力远逊于原著文字。柳乐优弥还原了北野武的姿态、语气、抖肩膀眨眼睛抽嘴角等等小动作，也赋予了这个角色另类、不羁等特质，但没有北野武“硬汉”的灵魂。大泉洋师父表演最佳，门胁麦有亮点。
「不要扮丑逗观众笑，要靠演技。如果你要扮女公关，就要把自己化成世界上最美的女人。」「不要讨好观众，你来告诉观众什么有趣的。」
看哭了 这个师父太暖了！北野武波澜壮阔的前半生。也反映了日本的时代背景，电视冲击了舞台剧。最后那个call back真的泪崩。一直在搞笑、有很多包袱
真实诚挚的情感，每个角色都立体丰满，敬麻里老板娘一杯！
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